The Limits of Language-Thought Influences Can Be Set by the Constraints of Embodiment

Frontiers in Psychology

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Prakash Mondal¹ 

[1] Department of Liberal Arts, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad

关键词: language;    thought;    cogniton;    constraints;    embodiment;    linguistic relativity hypothesis;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2021.593137

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

Language and thought are intimately related to one another, but the level or degree ofconnectedness between language and thought is not clear due to the fact that the influence oflanguage over thought can be more context-specific or general (see Zlatev and Blomberg, 2015).This reflects general assumptions from the Sapir–Whorf Hypothesis (Whorf, 1956). If the influenceof language over thought, thinking, and reasoning is very context-specific in being applicable tospecific modes/modalities of cognition, such as color, space, visual motion, etc., this may suggestthat the constraints of embodiment determine how modal linguistic symbols come to be groundedin neurally instantiated modality-specific systems (Barsalou, 2008).

【 授权许可】

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